Canberra will need potentially "thousands" more electricians skilled up to achieve the ACT's electrification goals with preparation needed now to encourage more high schoolers to join the trade, and to offer better wages to apprentices.
That's the view of those on the trade such as Benn Masters, who runs Solarhub, one of Canberra's largest and most successful solar and household battery installation companies, and Ben Caldwell, co-director of a smaller electrical, solar and air-conditioning company Electricooled, which employs one apprentice and has plans to engage another.
